The Mesa County Landfill operated normal business hours yesterday after a fire broke out late Tuesday night. KREX reports that the fire broke out just after 11:00pm at the Composting Facility within the landfill and was contained within two hours. The cause remains under investigation. No structures or equipment were damaged in the blaze. Source: [...]

Today the Garfield County Coroner announced that the body pulled from the Colorado River last Friday, June 18, 2010, near Parachute was that of Taylor Chisholm, 20, of Covington, Louisiana. Last Friday at approximately 12:20 p.m., a concerned citizen called Dispatch to report what he believed to be someone floating downriver near Rulison. Emergency responders [...]